Soon and very soon, we’re going to see The King, in all her Texan Negro-Creole (we recognize there may not need to be a distinction here) glory. By we, I mean the rest of y’all, seeing as how there’s already an indispensable portion of the world that has always been aware of how Southern Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is. For us, her most recent video, Formation, was just a reminder of what we already knew. Now, I could spend this post talking about how several folks not worth their weight in salt have been quick to jump onto this video without recognizing that it is just as unapologetically Southern as it is unapologetically black, but I feel like we’ve dragged on Northerners enough—at least for this month. So, instead, I think we should take some time to celebrate the first artist since Big K.R.I.T. to put Texas Pete and the region that perfected it back on the map.